THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 212, 13 June 1872, Page 2

THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.

By the arrival of the steamer City of Melbourne yesterday at Auckland we are in receipt of telegrams from London to the 10th of May, and in another portion of our columns we publish the latest news, which supplements that previously received by the Rangitoto. As almost everybody has anticipated, the despatch on the Alabama question from Secretary Fish to Lord Granville is eminently pacific, and there is not the least likelihood of any outbreak between the two nations. The good sense of the people on either side of the Atlantic would not allow them to drift into war on such a question. An election cry has been got up in America pending the next Prcsidental election, in which “ Perfidious Albion ” has been much abused, but the great bulk of the American people have learned too well the value of peace to risk it, unless menaced by a hostile nation, which is certainly not the attitude which England has assumed upon the Alabama question, the very fact of her assenting to refer the matter to arbitration is proof enough of this, and it will be one of the strong points which the Gladstone Ministry will make in the event of an appeal to the country (which seems probable) that they met America in a friendly spirit throughout, and brought the negotiations to a successful issue. The Education question is still occupying the attention of the British House of Commons, and, together with the “ Permissive Bill,” appears a very troublesome question to deal with. The battle which is being fought now in England on these questions is being contested on a small scale in New Zealand and the sister colonies, and that they may be brought

to a satisfactory conclusion, both here and at home, is devoutly to be wished. Much, however, remains to be done before this is .accomplished. In the House of Commons an-.> amendment, declaring the"' Bible to be an essential part of instruction, was carried against the Government by 216 to 209. The to tlic Ticliborne title and estates! has ■. been liberated (awaiting liis trial for perjury) on substantial bail, Lord Rivers, Dr Atwood, Mr Ruston, and Mr J. Lanarch having entered into the required recognizances. From this it would seem as if there were still some who believe the claimant to be the veritable “ Sir Roger,” notwithstanding all that has transpired. The case is certainly a most extraordinary one, involving contradictions and complications which have rarely, if ever, been equalled in the many singular trials which have ever taken place in the British Law Courts. Mr John Bright’s Bill for the enfranchisement of women has been defeated by 223 to 147, showing that the House is hardly ready to admit lady representatives at present. One very satisfactory item of intelligence which has reached us by this opportunity is that Dr Livingstone is in safety. A great hurricane is reported from Zanzibar, in which the town had been nearly destroyed, and property to the amount of two millions lost, and from Madras a cyclone is reported to have occurred, which did a vast amount of damage to shipping and other property. Many floods have occurred, and a thousand lives are stated to have been lost, and three times that number left homeless. Amongst other serious casualties is that of a five at Ycddo, the capital of Japan, which destroyed 5,000 buildings, and deprived of their homes 21,000 of the inhabitants. In Spain the Carlists have been defeated, and Don Carlos lias escaped to France. The loss of killed and wounded appears to have been considerable.